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News Briefs 11-1-11

By Jameskeon

Happy new year. Apocalypse -1.

  • Why Chinese mothers are superior.
  • Why the coming decade marks a new stage in human evolution.
  • One poor harvest away from chaos.
  • Ireland is a land of giants, but could a genetic variation be behind the myth, and could it help people with growth disorders?
  • Foetuses may have a womb with a view.
  • Neanderthals are not totally extinct.
  • Shift of Earth’s magnetic north pole affects Tampa airport.
  • Hitler-mocking dog enraged Nazis.
  • Chinese man sprouts 3 inch horn.
  • Jason and the argot: land where Greek’s ancient language survives.
  • Algorithms take control of Wall Street.
  • Hubble zeroes in on green blob in space.
  • Bodies make up fake coral reef.
  • A jackpot against the odds.
  • Physicists create sonic black hole.
  • The decline of the serial killer.
  • Tiny Earth-like planet discovered.
  • Google Map of recent mass animal die-offs.

Quote of the Day:

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

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11 Comments

    1. Beg to differ

      Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it’s math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun. This in turn makes it easier for the parent to get the child to work even more

      Well, I remember reading an article on the NYT that made a research with Chinese college students, and it seems that this drive to excellence that begins in childhood later on has a huge impact on them in terms of stress.

      They are driven that way because China is a country with one and a half billion people. Obviously there’s nowhere near enough universities and schools to accommodate all those youngsters. So they have to pick among the “best of the best”.

      However, I for one think that childhood is short enough, and it would be a pity if children aren’t allowed to behave like children during that time.

      Also, isn’t it interesting (or perhaps I’m reading too much here) that the activities favored by Chinese parents are playing violin or a piano, or dancing ballet? in other words, activities where the child is taught to be a performer. To follow someone else’s lead.

      I think that primordially a child should be taught (or rather encouraged) to exercise his or her creativity. To find their own expression. And yes, that would sometimes mean being tough on them and exercise a healthy amount of authority.

      But what do I know? I’m nobody’s dad 😉

      1. I agree with Red Pill Junkie
        I agree. I can’t provide a cite, but from what I’ve read that style of parenting and education is problematic. Not only can it lead to mental health issues, but on top of that it often results in a hidebound personality in workers. In the west, creativity is stressed instead and it seems to show in the workforce… the western employees are better able to deal with contingencies, while the the Asian workers have difficulty dealing with these issues without direction from management and seem to become confused. The way you raise your children is instrumental in deciding their future personality and mental faculties.

        Take my comments with a grain of salt though. It’s possible that I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I still agree with Red Pill Junkie.

      2. happiness
        We should also consider how content or unhappy people actually are in the various societies.

        Western education systems supposedly produce all these confused, overly aggressive, overly hedonistic young people. NO end of trouble. Whereas the eastern societies show more balanced young people.

        However, aside from the widespread violent crime with religious motivation in some Eastern societies, there is also the dramatically higher suicide rate in some other Eastern societies. I wouldn’t say that this demonstrates a better approach to raising and educating children.

  4. GoogleMapAnimalDieOffs
    Had anyone else noticed that these die-offs pretty much follow the jet stream track across the United States and into Europe. Exception would be the one in Brazil. Just a thought on causal factors? Something going on in China?

    1. Jet
      The jet stream shift every day, and seriously so. All over the continent in fact, blowing north to south, south to north and everything in between. It forms loops. Plus, there is more than one jet stream, usually.

      Was it going along those areas on the days in question?

      Or perhaps you just mean in the latitudes of general west-to-east weather flow.

      The reported cases seem, perhaps, clustered in areas of relatively dense (human) population. There could be several reasons for such a correlation.

      1. GoogleMapAnimalDieOffs
        I haven’t documented each individual die off as yet. There are sites with interactive daily maps of jet stream positions available online. Just happened to be looking at one for other reasons today and noticed a possible correlation. Did note that the streams do go towards the equator at times.

  5. “Bodies” make artificial coral reef
    I don’t know why i find this disturbing.

    Maybe it’s got to do with the recent outburst of violence in Mexico.

    Maybe it’s because my personal opinions re. the over-exploitation of Cancun and the Yucatan peninsula.

    Or *maybe* because it reminds me of the 1970s “dirty war” the government fought against several dissident groups –the way the government handled those dissident anarchists was quite efficient: they would send them on board an Army plane, and invite them to have a jump dive… in the middle of the ocean.

    Yeah, I guess that’s it.

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